DMD 1.001 release

[JohnC]

"Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:ep6asn$aer$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> New pointer-aware GC. Should run significantly faster for some programs.
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
>
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.001.zip

It appears that overriding TypeInfo implementations is no longer allowed. 
Was this intentional?